For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad jazz, loud and frenetic with a side helping of street funk, ...

Stage lights glisten off the shiny bells of the cornet and trombone as the band strikes up a strutting tune. The dance floor begins to fill with ladies in fringed dresses, many carrying fancy ...

Just three percussion instruments – the conga, bongos and timbales – transform a big band into a Latin ensemble full of upbeat melodies and unexpected rhythms. The fusion occurs every Thursday night ...

Sandra Jaffe, the co-founder of Preservation Hall, a deliberately down-at-the-heels French Quarter mecca for fans of traditional jazz played by its veteran practitioners, died Monday in New Orleans, a ...

A trad band has to do with traditional jazz music that really is associated with New Orleans. Honestly, I have mixed feelings about it in this sense: It is true that the music started and was ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Coming up Sunday afternoon, April 8, at Jewett Hall Auditorium will be the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DAMARISCOTTA — Mardi Gras comes to Damariscotta’s historic Lincoln Theater ...

An unassuming single-story brick building on the campus of University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne is the source of the Delmarva Peninsula's only traditional jazz radio station — WESM 91 ...

Grant Grech wants his music to have a voice of its own. The second-year psychology student said he is releasing his solo EP, “Grant Grech Plays Guitar,” to showcase his modern spin on a traditional, ...

The cover price is $8; the bare-bones joint has no air conditioning and serves no alcohol. “Preservation Hall is like a temple for traditional jazz,” said Jan Ramsey, publisher-editor of New ...

“We believe that tradition is not just a static body of knowledge. It’s the personal bond between generations of practitioners that allows culture to be transmitted and made meaningful in the present.

PASADENA, Calif. — At an autumn concert in Southern California, instrumentalist and vocalist Sheela Bringi carefully adjusted the strings of her harp before dedicating the opening invocation to ...